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  2. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...

  3. Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. [1] It expresses the principle of federalism, whereby the federal government and the individual states share power, by mutual agreement, with the federal government having the supremacy.

  4. Establishment Clause - Wikipedia

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    The original Mason-Dixon line was the demarcation line between the Catholic colony of Maryland and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania colonies, which followed the 1689 Bill of Rights and their own colonial constitutions which provided similar protections against the establishment of Catholic laws in government.

  5. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The English Bill of Rights (1689) was an inspiration for the American Bill of Rights. Both require jury trials, contain a right to keep and bear arms, prohibit excessive bail and forbid "cruel and unusual punishments". [97]

  6. Third Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Bill of Rights. Yale University Press. Beeman, Richard (2009). Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. Random House. Bell, Tom W. (1993) "The Third Amendment: Forgotten but Not Gone". William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 2.1: pp. 117–150. Labunski, Richard E. (2006). James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of ...

  7. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights. In the original draft of the Bill of Rights, what is now the First Amendment occupied third place. The first two articles were not ratified by the states, so the article on disestablishment and free speech ended up being first. [1] [2] The Bill ...

  8. Regulatory takings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The "polestar" of regulatory takings jurisprudence is Penn Central Transp. Co. v.New York City (1973). [3] In Penn Central, the Court denied a takings claim brought by the owner of Grand Central Terminal following refusal of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to approve plans for construction of 50-story office building over Grand Central Terminal.

  9. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. [1] Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the United States Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear ...